Places roadtriptammy Wants to Go

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.